Improvement in street-car starters



H' Car Starter.

'Patente d June 21, 1870. I

- N.PETERS. PHOTOLUTNDGHAPKER, WASHINGTON D Q specification. a

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ILYA D wntoaj or SOHUYLERSVILLE, NEW YORK, Assienon T0 mos n. SALISBURY, or SAME PLACE.

I ett rs Patent No. 104,673, dated June 21, 1870.

frm noveivmnw IN STREET-GAR STARTERS.

To all whom it may confcej'rn 1 Be it knownthatI, 11mm weed of Schuylersville in the county of Saratoga and in the State 3 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Attachment of a Lever toa Horse or Steam-Gar, horses or steam attached to the I lever, and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference be-. ing had to the accompanyingdrawing andto the lettersof reference marked thereon makinga part of this 3 The nature of my, invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a device to be attached to railroad cars, whetherthorse or steam, for the purpose of facilitating the startingof said cars. V i

In order toienable others skilledin the art to which inyr'invention"appertains to make and "use the same, I

will now proceed to describe its constmetiou and operation, referring to the-annexed drawing, in which I Figure 1 is a plan view-of a car-frame with my de- I vice attached, and

Figure 2- is a vertical section ofone end of the same.

A represents the frameot afrailrqad car, of which 13 B are the axles and CO the wheels.

-UpontheaXleB issecured a toothed wheel I), and

between saidwheel and the frame,'on the axle, is placed a lever, E, which moves. freely up and down, that is, revolves on the .axle, while the axleis permitted to turn freely: in the lever. l I

on the inner side of-ftheleven-E is pivoted a pawl, G, which gears with thetoothed wheel D onthe rear side, and can be thrown out of gear by being turned overagainst the pin a/on the lever. From the rear endof the lever E a cord orchain,

1;,pass'esupward around a pulley d, on the side of a standard, .H, which isffirmly secured to the frame- A,

and extends up under the seatof-the car.

' The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

.This cordor chain b,.after passing around the pulley ,is attached to;a1ever, 'e, secured to a shaft, I, in'the end of the car-"frame.

'At the center of the shaft I is a loop, f, through which the tongue is passed and suitably secured.

- When the car stops, the team being backed, the loop f turns backward, causing the lever E to drop down as far as the chain 1) will permit. Then,'when the car is to be started, it will readily be seen that, before the power of the team is applied to the car, theshaft I will bepartiallyturned forward.

Through the means of thelevere and cord b, the lever E is raised up, causing the pawl H to' turn the wheel D, axle B, andwheelsG O,'thus actually starting the car before the power of the horses comes in operation, or it will at least assist the horses in start selves not new.

I What I claim is-- The arrangement, under the car-seat, of the wheel D, pawl G, lever E, cord or chain 12, standard H, and

pulley d, in combinationwith the rock-shaft I, with lever e and bail fi-all constructedto operate as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my'hand and seal this 18th day of December, 1869.

HILYARD W'ELOH. {L'SJ' \Vitnesses ROBERT HERMANCE, Geo. W. DEMIGK. 

